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Albee, Edward. THE ZOO STORY / The Death Of Bessie Smith / The Sandbox. New York: Coward-McCann, 1960. First edition of the author's first book. 8vo. Laid into this copy is an edifying 1963 TLS from Albee in which he articulates his artistic credo: "No beginning playwright, or no playwright at all for that matter, can tell totally about his work until he sees it on stage. Just as I believe that teaching playwriting entirely by lecture is pointless..." Some 175 words. Also laid in is a small sepia photograph of Albee that he has signed. Hardcover. Fine in an equally fine, first state dust jacket with the $2.75 price on the inner flap. Later jackets, which are what you generally encounter, were price-clipped by the publisher and the price was raised to $3.50
$3,000.00
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[Art]. Hockney, David. HOCKNEY'S ALPHABET: Drawings by David Hockney & Contributions by 25 Writers. London: Faber and Faber for the AIDS Crisis, 1991. First edition. Small folio. Edited by Stephen Spender. One of 300 copies (250 for sale) printed on Exhibition Fine Art Cartridge paper, specially bound in quarter vellum with handmade Fabriano Roma paper sides, signed by Hockney, Spender and 22 of the contributors. Four contributors, Paul Theroux, Ted Hughes, Gore Vidal and Anthony Burgess, were unavailable or otherwise engaged at the time and unable to sign the book. But the 22 who did sign constitute a who's who of contemporary British and American letters: Seamus Heaney, Martin Amis. Kazuo Ishiguru, Iris Murdoch, William Golding, Julian Barnes, V. S. Pritchett, William Boyd, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, Arthur Miller, Norman Mailer, Margaret Drabble, Ian McEwan, Doris Lessing , Susan Sontag, et al. An unmitigated triumph of the bookmaking art. Hardcover. Fine in publisher's box.
$5,000.00
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[Art]. Rauschenberg, Robert. (Illustrator). THE DANCER by Joel Oppenheimer. Highlands, N.C.: Black Mountain College, 1951. First edition of the poet's first book, consisting of the title poem only. 8vo. Cover illustration by Robert Rauschenberg. Printed by Oppenheimer himself on his Sad Devil Press in an edition of
150 copies as Jargon Two. Rare, this being the only copy we have had in forty years of bookselling. Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
$7,500.00
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[Art]. Richter, Hans. DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN BUY. New York: Films International of America, 1947. First edition. 8vo. 24-page program for the legendary Surrealist film. With a cover illustration by Max Ernst and illustrated throughout with scenes from the color film which was written, produced and directed by Hans Richter. The list of contributors to the production is awe-inspiring: Max Ernst, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, John Cage, Paul Bowles, Darius Milhaud, David Diamond, Libby Holman, Josh White, John Latouche, Julien Levy, and Jack Bittner who is the protagonist of the seven dreams. Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
$1,000.00
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Ashbery, John. TURANDOT And Other Poems. New York: Editions of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953. First edition of the poet's first book. 8vo. One of 300 copies. Decorated wrappers with label. A fine, fresh copy with the fragile yapp-edges but slightly creased.
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Auden, W[ystan] H[ugh]. NATURE, HISTORY AND POETRY! The Bronx: Thought [i.e. Fordham University Quarterly], September 1950. First edition. 4to. An offprint from the magazine in which the poet eruditely probes his subject with philosophical logic. Though Bloomfield and Mendelson cite the magazine in their bibliography of Auden's works, no mention is made of this first separate publication. As such this pamphlet stands among the poet's rarest "A" items. Stapled wrappers. Fine.
$1,500.00
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